FW V06.XX/HAFM SW V08.02.00 HP StorageWorks SAN High Availability Planning Guide (AA-RS2DD-TE, July 2004)
Table Of Contents
- SAN HA Planning Guide
- Contents
- About this Guide
- Introduction to HP Fibre Channel Products
- Product Management
- Planning Considerations for Fibre Channel Topologies
- Fibre Channel Topologies
- Planning for Point-to-Point Connectivity
- Characteristics of Arbitrated Loop Operation
- Planning for Private Arbitrated Loop Connectivity
- Planning for Fabric-Attached Loop Connectivity
- Planning for Multi-Switch Fabric Support
- Fabric Topologies
- Planning a Fibre Channel Fabric Topology
- Fabric Topology Design Considerations
- FICON Cascading
- Physical Planning Considerations
- Port Connectivity and Fiber-Optic Cabling
- HAFM Appliance, LAN, and Remote Access Support
- Inband Management Access (Optional)
- Security Provisions
- Optional Features
- Configuration Planning Tasks
- Task 1: Prepare a Site Plan
- Task 2: Plan Fibre Channel Cable Routing
- Task 3: Consider Interoperability with Fabric Elements and End Devices
- Task 4: Plan Console Management Support
- Task 5: Plan Ethernet Access
- Task 6: Plan Network Addresses
- Task 7: Plan SNMP Support (Optional)
- Task 8: Plan E-Mail Notification (Optional)
- Task 9: Establish Product and HAFM Appliance Security Measures
- Task 10: Plan Phone Connections
- Task 11: Diagram the Planned Configuration
- Task 12: Assign Port Names and Nicknames
- Task 13: Complete the Planning Worksheet
- Task 14: Plan AC Power
- Task 15: Plan a Multi-Switch Fabric (Optional)
- Task 16: Plan Zone Sets for Multiple Products (Optional)
- Index
Physical Planning Considerations
165SAN High Availability Planning Guide
FICON Management Server
When the FMS feature key is enabled with the Element Manager application, host
control and management of the director or switch is provided through a server
attached to a product port. The server communicates with the product through a
FICON channel.
When implementing inband product management through a FICON channel, plan
for the following minimum host requirements:
■ Connectivity to an IBM S/390 Parallel Enterprise Server (Generation 5 or
Generation 6), with one or more FICON channel adapter cards installed, using
System Automation for Operating System/390 (SA OS/390) for native
FICON, version 1.3 or later, plus service listed in the appropriate preventive
service planning (PSP) bucket. The PSP bucket upgrade is HKYSA30.
The minimum OS/390 level for a director or switch without the control unit
port (CUP) feature is version 2.6, plus service listed in PSP bucket upgrade
2032, device subset 2032OS390G5+. The minimum OS/390 level for a
director or switch with the CUP feature is version 2.1, plus service listed in
the preceding PSP bucket for that function.
■ Connectivity to an IBM eServer zSeries 800 (z800), zSeries 900 (z900), or
zSeries 990 (z990) processor, with one or more FICON or FICON Express
channel adapter cards installed, using the z/OS operating system, version 1.1
or later.
■ A host-attached Hardware Management Console. The console runs the
Hardware Management Console application (HWMCA) and is the operations
and management PC platform for S/390 or zSeries servers.
For additional information, refer to the IBM publication, System Automation for
OS/390, Operations (GC28-1550).
Flexport Technology
The Edge Switch 2/12, Edge Switch 2/32, and Edge Switch 2/24 can be purchased
at a discount without all Fibre Channel ports enabled. The Flexport technology
feature is a hardware port expansion kit that allows customers to upgrade switch
capacity on demand in eight-port increments.
Flexport technology kits are available to upgrade the following:
■ Edge Switch 2/12 from 4 to 8 ports and/or 8 to 12 ports.
■ Edge Switch 2/24 from 8 to 16 ports and/or from 16 to 24 ports.
■ Edge Switch 2/32 from 16 to 24 ports and/or 24 to 32 ports.